Category: Web Design

Joomla Showcase: 44 Beautiful Joomla Website Designs

January 20th, 2010 in Insipiration, Web Design | View Comments

Joomla, one of the most popular PHP CMS, has been used by tons of websites. It is very customizable and extendable through various plugins. Developers use Joomla to build Company websites, directories, personal blogs, e-commerce websites and etc.

Back to few months ago, we showcase beautiful WordPress blogs. Some readers ask me to collect beautiful Joomla designs, as not everyone use WordPress as their CMS. So, we decided to collect cool Joomla designs over the world and present to our readers.

If you are a Joomla designer and are scratching your head for a new Joomla design, then you had reached to the right place. Today, we are going to share 44 beautiful Joomla designs that may inspired you.

Developers use Joomla to build Company websites, directories, personal blogs, e-commerce websites etc. And with Joomla web hosting you can ensure the smooth working of your Joomla website.

omy.sg

omy.sg is Singapore’s bilingual news and interactive web portal leading by media group Singapore Press Holdings Ltd.

omy.sg

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70 Gorgeous Blog Footer Designs

December 3rd, 2009 in Insipiration, Web Design | View Comments

Any blog or website is basically divided to header, content, sidebar and footer. Among these sections, footer is the most underused and unnoticeable area.

However, you can do a lot of things with your blog footer. For example, recent comments, Flickr photo stream, author bio/list of blog’s authors, blogroll, Twitter updates, contact form and so on. Besides these, you can have your avatar or simply any creative illustration at the blog footer too.

Today, we are going to share 70 Gorgeous Blog Footer Designs. We hope this list will not only brings inspiration to you, but also give idea on what you can actually insert to your blog footer, either extra info or new features.

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45 Inspiring Navigation Menus That You Must See

October 29th, 2009 in Insipiration, Web Design | View Comments

Navigation menu is the most important element in the web design. It guides users to your content and also shows them your site structure. A well-designed and user friendly navigation menu will definitely attract more users to click and browse your content.

Designing a navigation menu is not easy. The designer needs to understand the site structure before start. Furthermore, designer needs to make sure the navigation menu can cope for future needs. One of the example is the number of elements in the menu increase in future.

In this article, you will see 45 inspiring, user-friendly and well-designed navigation menus. Although they may not necessary suit your design, but we hope these navigation menus can bring inspiration to our readers.

Matt Dempsey
Matt Dempsey

paiko
Home at www.paiko.de

Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver

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Understanding Webpage Usability

October 14th, 2009 in Usability, Web Design | View Comments

Often when designers are creating new web pages, they rely on the design of the elements within a page. Banners have to look pleasant; navigation buttons have to be consistent and so on. But when these elements are placed together within a page, they create dynamics that attract user attention. The study on user attraction, or attentiveness, is a part of what is called usability – a guide on how to assess purposefulness of a user interface.

That is why you might notice that the most popular websites like Google and Facebook have minimalistic designs and there is a good reason for such approach.

Less Is More

There is a common saying amongst designers and developers alike – Keep It Simple and stupid. A webpage that sells shampoos to customers should only have the necessary webpages to sell that particular product and not anything else. Users don’t need to know the size of the bottle or even what colour of the shampoo would be.

When things are kept simple, users get to do tasks quickly and when they do, they will appreciate and come back to your website again.

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WordPress Showcase: 40+ Beautiful And Well Designed Blogs Powered By WordPress

August 26th, 2009 in Insipiration, Web Design, Wordpress | View Comments

In the previous post, we showcase 50 creative portfolios and soon there are readers who request us to share beautiful blog designs. A great portfolio will attract more clients to a designer while great blog design will bring you more visitors too.

Although content is king, but with a unique and awesome blog design, you can attract visitors and catch their attentions. So I would say beautiful blog design together with good content will definitely bring your blog stand out from the crowd.

Since most of us use WordPress as our blogging platform, we decided to list out 40+ really awesome and beautiful blogs powered by WordPress. We will see blogs from other platforms in the future.

1. Assault Blog

Assault Blog

2. BestBlogBox

BestBlogBox

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30+ Well Designed Online Shopping Carts

August 14th, 2009 in Ecommerce, Insipiration, Web Design | View Comments

There are more and more online stores within the internet. You can build an online shopping cart easily by using open source ecommerce shopping cart solution. After all, you just need to customize the look and feel of the website.

One of the famous open source ecommerce shopping cart software is Magento, and we had covered magento template in our previous post. A well designed online shopping cart will certainly bring you more revenue. So, it is advised that you put more efforts in your shopping cart’s design.

Today, we are going to look into 30+ well designed online shopping carts. We try not to cover those famous ecommerce websites such as Amazon and Ebay. The intention of this article is to share some simple and well design ecommerce websites with our readers.

1. Better Closet

Better Closet

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30+ Easy To Follow Photoshop Layout Design Tutorials

July 13th, 2009 in Photoshop, Resources, Web Design | View Comments

Photoshop is an excellent application for web designers. No matter you are beginner of expert of Photoshop, you can easily get tutorials and resources by using the search engine.

Most of the theme developers/designers will done their website design using Photoshop, and then slice and convert them into CSS/HTML template. Here, i had collected 30+ easy to follow Photoshop layout design tutorials. You can follow them step by step to learn how to create a website layout design by using Photoshop.

1. Carbon Fiber Layout

Carbon Fiber Layout

2. Business WordPress PSD Layout

Business WordPress PSD

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